Lang subsequently announced that Woodstock 50 had new backers and that tickets would be going on sale imminently. That was over three weeks ago, and Woodstock has been quiet since, irrespective of the fact that they would need to sell 75,000 tickets for an event happening in under two months.

The first Woodstock lost its venue a month in advance and was an iconic success anyway, but it's more than a little difficult to imagine the festival triumphing in the same way in 2019.